Are You More Attractive to Mosquitoes?

Why do some people attract mosquito bites more than others? Heidi Mitchell explains on Lunch Break.

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... I ... he was more attracted to certain people here in the ski season right now ... a health team has been digging up some answers as to why certain outdoor ventures seem to be ... more assaulted by the tiny insects than others Joinus right now is Heidi Mitchell she writes for the for most reveals Pursell Journal section Heidi ... thanks for being here now you spoken to link with a molecular of Vector biologists the sounds very official event of the universe to get some answers ... on he's been working almost twenty years of mosquitoes ... what is the basic way that mosquitoes find their prey ... for in a ... bid to cater to look for this he think I've adapted over an eighteen which is why from time to other ... people who are priced in for a larger body might feel that the giving it a little bit more today has been under thirty more ... he and have adapted and all those factors the area to attack and the one we get closer than if you ... are really eating it and to know what they're looking for it bacteria the doctor in your hand ... so it has nothing and actually do with our blood our self it's really just about fell about owner and bacteria ... it really broke the news ... some people think they're really being assaulted in the big online I'm guide that they can ride a bike and in Pierre whatever people buy health are out there ... but the thinking chair that if you're really here the English it seems like I ... did the rhetoric is like the work that led to kill some ... theory that that light try again opined that the thing but to ... be ... the really don't know if you have ... healthy but are not too healthy but they just melted I carry that I knew ... that there ... is a little of claims online about five different things that could teach her ... mosquitoes eating garlic I you know what is the expert who spoke to say about that ... he added that there is no scientific evidence that that's the thing is that though I you know that maybe garlic home after ten minutes to an appetizing to give the Fed did it to your husband or wife for I know ... I know I think it will confuse the defeat of the ITB is that not one of them I'm afraid if there was a likes children seem to be more susceptible to bite T students cracks in all when adults often ... but he seemed to completely attacked by the end of the pot that that that that but it didn't seem to be because young children had been bitten fill your time to grow at a hearing in the tender offer to him mature into they haven't built up an immunity that ... they did have an allergic reaction and I came back and the fact that but the most part it's because we really ... like authentic hadith lead ... twenty years on they had one more bite from the body becomes more and more because it is assisting because is Dr his base we become immune to the reaction is used as he's been working with them them so long for the rest of the snow blanketed the state in twenty years says mosquitos ... what are some things we can do just to protect ourselves ... one of the team that is how it that ... but he knew he should ... definitely avoid gone into a button to get the more active the nation if it did it for a good enough to fight the flu into thinking that around the park he and I had huge she said I've ... figured they had which was to load them if you go the way and that really riding in a way to get more ... than you think you should do ... to get used to having them around you and then you both so bothered by them and then of course on for Chile that that thing out there and build a tender to like controversy around that but ... until there's something more that it's he adds that they can keep it ... to take ... the computer like years now and today Mike Smith on to the bechamel they can find free to try the garlic I Heidi